Texas' only licensed Hindi, Punjabi, and Urdu legal interpreter is now languishing in a Raymondville detention center. She’s lived in America for 35 years: www.texasobserver.org/immigration-...
The iterations of border walls have transformed a beautiful international park along the San Diego / Tijuana border. I wrote about what I have seen over nearly three decades, and the implications to sacred lands with new border walls planned in the San Diego region. Read more below:
Federal judge: Continued Border Patrol sweeps in California violated court order
In a tersely worded decision unsealed Thursday morning, the judge wrote that agents had “again detained people without reasonable suspicion,”
W/ @wendyfry.bsky.social
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Martin Lucas, a landscaper and hard worker, was killed by a white supremacist in Fallbrook, CA.
“You wanna die today? I will kill you right now. Don’t f--- with me. OK? You sabe? You sabe in Español or in Inglés?” the man with the gun told him.
Donate if you can:
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Abolish ICE? Yes, absolutely, but don't forget about Border Patrol, an agency with a 100+ history of operating with impunity. Accountability is a must in a context where the constitution has less applicability.
Nice job, @sergioolmos.bsky.social @wendyfry.bsky.social Bell¿ingcat and Evident.
ALERT: I'm seeing headlines like this claiming victory on the Big Bend border wall. THIS IS COMPLETELY FALSE. All DHS did was change the color of a line on a map. DHS engineers have mapped out a course for the wall in Big Bend National Park. They showed their cards. (thread 1/6)
Haitian asylum seeker Emmanuel Damas, 56, died at a Scottsdale, AZ hospital Monday, while in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, after struggling to receive timely care for a worsening toothache: @tucson.com tucson.com/news/local/b...
In San Diego, DHS police arbitrarily change rules overnight to cite court watchers:
The rule change "meant they could no longer stand in hallways to document immigration arrests or support those with hearings & appointments in the building."
[Reporting: @bgirledukate.bsky.social]
Hi folks, I'm fundraising for Maria, a mom who ICE detained in San Diego while at a routine ICE appointment. Maria has 3 children who need her. The funds raised will cover costs associated with a habeas corpus petition. Thank you for any support.
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“Operation Road Flare is a SAC San Diego Homeland Security Investigations investigation of agitator [redacted] and other known & unknown conspirators impeding, obstructing, & interfering with Immigration & Customs Enforcement field operation”
ICE monitors people involved in 1A protected activity.
Research from my colleagues at @afsc-org.bsky.social shows Palantir Gets Millions of Dollars From New York City’s Public Hospitals by @sambiddle.com
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If that burrito has rice, then no. 😜
California must revoke permits allowing federal agencies such as CBP and the DEA to put automated license plate readers along border highways, a coalition of 38 groups led by EFF and the Imperial Valley Equity & Justice Coalition demanded today of @governor.ca.gov and the CA Dept of Transportation.
Fallible logic: what's tolerable for border communities is not for interior communities.
Good news for Minneapolis & interior communities, bad news for El Centro & border communities.
Bovino will continue his state violence in El Centro.
Back to status quo militarization, brutality, & opaqueness.
A federal agent observing a protest at San Diego's federal bldg wears "Violent Gentlemen" shirt from a site that has "Ice in our blood" as a tagline a day after his colleague in MN murdered Renee N. Good, a mother who posed no threat to anyone. They operate with comfort is this culture of violence.
Our work over the last 12 months in San Diego was non-stop. Here is a photographic reflection of that work.
In May 2010, Border Patrol & ICE agents tortured Anastasio Hernandez Rojas to death. HBO's "Critical Incident: Death at the Border" details the cover-up that followed & the implications for an out-of-control agency that still remains unaccountable. The documentary airs tonight.
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Heads up, friends. This promises to be hard hitting. In May 2010, CBP & ICE agents brutalized & tortured Anastasio Hernandez Rojas at the San Ysidro POE. His family, in their relentless pursuit for justice, worked with advocates to expose the cover-up. This documentary tells that story. Stay tuned.
The climate is such that they no longer feel a need to wear hoods.
border invasion Biden insane asylums men playing in women's sports crime at record levels billions & billions of dollars indoctrinating your children woke hate for America border $1776 military America is respected the likes of which the world has never seen have a merry Christmas & a happy New Year
On lies & slander:
"We are literally dispossessing our children thru mass migration.
"Mass & illegal migration undermine the rule of law and social cohesion, both prerequisites for the functioning of democracy."
S. Chretien, Senior Bureau Official
US DOS, Bureau of Pop, Refugees, & Migration
Graciela Asunción Gómez Hernández died while crossing into the US in Sept 2025. Her body wasn't found until Oct.
Today I accompanied volunteers who installed a cross in her memory.
The double-layered border walls are visible nearby. In the distance, the dew evaporates from Tijuana's urban landscape.
In my latest piece, I look at the implications of Border Patrol usurping top command posts in ICE leadership...
"we can expect an expansion of egregious abuses — and a lack of accountability, opaqueness, and zero oversight."
Read more here @calmatters.org
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Correct, & why I insisted since Bovino's move in Kern County in Jan that folks should be precise about differentiating which agency is which in the DHS matrix involved in immigration raids. It helps to understand their strategies & to hold them accountable, even though doing so is nearly impossible.
On Halloween and every other day of the year, which side are you on?
the working class or billionaires?
Photo from protest at San Diego Federal Building, where ICE abducts migrants attending ICE check-ins & court hearings, & where ICE detains people at the building's basement & denies it does this.
The Trump regime is purging ICE officials in offices in 5 major US cities & will fill some of those top posts with senior Border Patrol agents who will take over interior immigration enforcement in those regions.
The regime is going for tried and tested cruelty.
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"Consider choosing violence"
An ICE agent with a curious uniform, casually and comfortably promoting violence while working at the San Diego federal building.
